Books to Read

These are some of my favorite books about Castles.

Walter
Dragun's Town by Sheila Sancha is about Crafts and Trades of the Middle
Ages. You could learn what business was like in the time of castles.

Cross-Sections
CASTLE by Stephen Biesty. It tells you what it was like in a Castle
under siege or a castle in peace time. I mainly like the pictures, because they
look like you're really looking at the castle. In the book, there's a spy hiding
in each picture, which you can find!

David
McCaulay's Castle book tells you the story of a castle - what it's
construction was like, what it was for, what tools they used to construct the
castle, what weapons they had, and much more. David McCaulay has written several
other books, such as Cathedral, Roman City, Pyramid, and Underground. All of
his books tell you a story with great drawings. There is a video for his books
too!

There
are two Eyewitness books that I like. One is about knights, knights' equipment,
and what knights actually did. Their book about castles has great pictures and
lots of infomation.

Other recommendations that I got by e-mail:

"I have a favorite book about castles that you might like to hear about. "Castles" by Philip Steele
--Kingfisher Publishing, 1995. It has a lot of information about knights, sieges, jousts, chivalry and
feasts.

Sincerely,

Zach C."

Stories! If you would like to send a story about castles
to put on the web, send it to me as an e-mail or an attachment and I will add
it into Ian's Land of Castles. Send them to nxd10@psu.edu.